Venture capital firm
Uma Ventures
Uma Ventures is a Hong Kong-headquartered venture capital firm operating as a General Partner across high-growth emerging tech ecosystems. Founded in 2014 by Managing Director Vinay Vaswani, the firm behaves as an early-stage catalyst, partnering closely with bold, tenacious founders to scale disruptive solutions from the ground up. The general partner executes a thesis-driven investment strategy, deploying capital through dedicated private fund series and single-family office syndicates straight into Pre-Seed and Seed-stage opportunities. With deep expertise in supply chains, B2B procurement, and digital trade infrastructure, the firm actively targets and backs market-defining logistics and commerce platforms throughout West and Central Africa.
Investment focus
- Sectors
- Financial servicesTechnologyManufacturing and industrialsConsumer
- Stages and strategies
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B+
- Instruments
- Equity
- Regions
- Pan-African, Asia, Northern America
Sources
- Partner Researchers, accessed 14 November 2026